Sonya Pashchevskaya
Main Focus
I am a behavioural ecologist with a background in mathematics and extensive fieldwork experience. My research focuses on sociality in wild bonobos using Bayesian Social Network Analysis (SNA) and includes method-oriented studies for SNA application in long-term data-sets. I am particularly interested in female migrants and their integration into communities, as well as ecological drivers of bonobo social dynamics. I have been associated with the LuiKotale Bonobo Project since the beginning of 2019, and I regularly go to the field site to collect data and train the research assistants teams.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 2020-2021: MSc in Primate Behaviour and Conservation. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 2010-2013: BSc in Mathematics, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Department of Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
- 2007-2009: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kuban State. Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia
- Oct 2021 – May 2022 / May – Sep 2023: Senior Research Assistant, LuiKotale Bonobo Project, Democratic Republic of The Congo
- Feb 2019 – Feb 2020: Research Assistant, LuiKotale Bonobo Project, Democratic Republic of The Congo
- May 2017 – Mar 2018: Research Assistant, Filoha Hamadryas Project, Awash National Park, Ethiopia
- Mar 2016 – Mar 2017: Research Assistant, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. M. Westneat, The University of Chicago and Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
- Feb 2016 – Feb 2017: Research Assistant, Laboratory of Prof. Dr. S. London, Institute for Mind and Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA